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Meanings of so docile in English

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Usage of so docile in English
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Why was the wolf so docile with the people of Lion Camp?
The Mammoth Hunters
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George wondered just how long the weather would remain so docile.
Paths of glory
3
Could that explain why these people are so docile and mine so fierce?
Jitterbug Perfume
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He would prove so docile as to reproduce her very accent.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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She had always seemed so docile and so attached to him.
The new yorker
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His temperament is half the battle with him, he's so docile.
The Guardian
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He'd been so docile as he followed the girl's example: so comfortable, so self-possessed.
Lowboy
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He had accepted her rebuke in so docile a spirit.
The Bars of Iron
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She had never seen the Witch so docile, so dejected.
Dorothy's Mystical Adventures in Oz
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No one would think to look at you, Graves, that you were so docile.
Tess of the Storm Country
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Mara says they weren't so docile when you broke in.
Warlord of Kor
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He was so docile, he shut the door so gently, he seemed so very clever.
The Two Guardians / or, Home in This World
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It is because you are so docile and gentle.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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She is so docile, so good-humoured, so spontaneous.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
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And so docile, some of them must needs obey an order before they have understood it!
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus
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Yet so docile, and obedient, and good-tempered.
Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
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